The Adrenaline Athletics cheerleading team will participate in the Cold Snap Classic at the Northlands Expo Centre in Edmonton.

“Being that (we are) brand new cheerleading program in the Peace Country area, we are super excited,” Adrenaline Athletics owner and coach Jennifer Lekisch said. “This is going to be the first competition that our program has ever been to. The girls have been training since July for this competition.”

Senior Level 2 captain Alison Benson, along with her teammates, believe it’s all systems go at this point.

“I'm really excited,” Benson said. “It's been a while since I've competed (but, as a group, we're ready to go). It's going to be good.”

Even the boss is ready, or so it seems.

“Our team has only been running 'full-outs,' the full routine, full out, for the last month,” Lekisch said. “We're just starting to get excited about competing. It's been a hustle. It's been a lot of work building up to this and we're finally starting to see the end result. It's going to be amazing.”

There will 26 competitors from Adrenaline making the trip to the capital city with two individual competitors and three all-star teams competing in the two-day affair.

The Senior Level 2 group, consisting of 12 girls between the ages of 10-17, is the oldest of the groups competing for Adrenaline.

Their routine will be exhausting considering the number of elements they will attempt, such as acrobatic stunting, tumbling and dancing, all done in a neat and tidy two-and-a-half minute routine.

“We've been practicing (a lot) doing our routine again, again and again,” Benson said. “It's really fast-paced, when you get down to it. It takes a lot out of you.”

For the uninitiated, there's more to these routines that meets the eye. It takes a lot of work to run it and run it properly.

“It's a big deal when you're holding someone your size in the air for multiple times in that routine, plus you're doing tumbling, running around, dancing and having to remember choreography,” Lekisch said.

At this point in time it's just a case of rounding off the sharp edges to make the routine smooth to the touch.

“When we do it, we're not worried about doing (the routine), just perfecting it,” Benson said. “Every time we practice, it's been going well. I think we're going to (do well). “(At this point) I don't have to pay attention to what I'm doing, I just do it and I go through the motions, but in a good way.”

All that's left to do is compete and go on a fact-finding mission, of sorts. With this competition being the inaugural one for Adrenaline, its collective eyes will be wide open, evaluating, questioning everything they see.

After all, it's a big world out there.

“Where do we stand when it comes to everyone else?,” Lekisch said. “Did the other teams put a better routine out there? Did we have the cleanest routine? How was our (degree) of difficulty? That kind of stuff.”

But in the end it's all about the young competitors.

“I just want them to go out there, have a great time and put the best routine they can out on the floor,” Lekisch said.